When comparing Day One vs Capture 365 Journal, the Slant community recommends Day One for most people. In the question“What are the best journaling apps for iOS?” Day One is ranked 4th while Capture 365 Journal is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Day One is:
Between iOS and Mac.
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Pros
Pro Effortless syncing via iCloud
Between iOS and Mac.
Pro Beautiful UI
Choice of color palette, icon glyph variety and animations create a design that is pleasurable to look at and does not get in the way.
Pro Easy to use
A high level of attention to detail, intuitive suggestions and automation of common tasks make this application very easy to use.
Pro Easy to to find old posts
With a good search and calendar view.
Pro All the features you need
You can create more than one entry in one day. You have many styles and font choices. You can add photos, tags to your entries. Optionally, you can have pass-codes, reminders. You can opt to automatically add location and weather data. Search function built-in. Ability to export a portion or all entries to PDF.
Pro 2012 Mac App of the Year
Pro Markdown support
Pro Automatically posts photos and locations if I don’t have time to
Pro Multiple media types supported
Can attached multiple images and videos to each entry.
Pro Local syncing
Can sync locally with WIFI and not use cloud services.
Pro macOS app
Has a macOS app counterpart.
Pro Rich text formatting
Supports rich text formats. Bold, Italics and underline.
Pro Templates
Supports custom templates for quick insertion into entries.
Pro Location and weather support
Location and weather data is automatically acquired and added to entry.
Pro Feeds support
Can import from social media services and calendar such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr.
Pro Cloud syncing
Can sync with iCloud and Dropbox.
Pro Multiple tags
Supports more than one tag for each entry.
Pro Multiple journals
Can have more than one journal.
Cons
Con Subscription based
For former users, it's $24.99 per year.
For new users, current discount is $34.99 per year while full price is $49.99 per year.
Con Lack of DropBox and iCloud syncing
Con Cannot local sync between Mac and iOS devices.
Con No encryption
Data is stored in a plain-text XML file.
Con Limited to one photo per entry
Currently, in both the mobile and Mac apps, only a single photo can be added to a journal entry.
Con Lacks Windows or Web support
Day One has no Windows or Web support, which can be inconvenient. For example, if users don't want to write a long journal entry on their phones and only have a Windows PC available as an alternative, they are not able to use it as a more practical alternative to write said post, not even using a web browser.
Con You need to purchase two separate subscriptions to sync your iPhone and Mac
Read this from Day One Support: http://help.dayoneapp.com/day-one-2-0/how-many-licenses-do-i-need-to-run-day-one-on-multiple-devices
Con Couldn’t synch
I couldn’t synch, I couldn’t save into the cloud, couldn’t make an extra journal and ended completely disappointed because I paid and can’t really use it for anything.
Con Images way to small in entry page
The images in an entry don't automatically appear. You have to click a slightly dark button that tells you there are images in your entry. However, the images still appear small. If you double-click, the image appears large but the text gets covered.
Con Feeds are charged individually
You have to pay for each of the feeds that you want to import and you can’t import your photos from the roll with a date like in other more famous journaling apps.
Con Can’t see all the entries within a specific tag
And the service wouldn’t give an answer about this feature.
Con Unreliable and buggy
It's still 'flaky', what you would expect from an app in beta. It sometimes crashes, thus unstable; it also freezes; it does not import, as yet. You are also unable to try before you buy. It has some work to do before becoming a quality app.
